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"A probing, witty, and deeply insightful history of blindness--in Western culture and literature, and in the author's own experience--that ranges from Homer to Milton to Braille to Stevie Wonder. M. Leona Godin begins her fascinating, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how "blindness" has, for millennia, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how, in metaphorical...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six,...
3) Blue skies
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Two people discover the healing power of love in this Coulter Family romance from New York Times bestselling author Catherine Anderson. Carly Adams feels as if she's been given a new lease on life. Born with a rare eye disease, she was blind until a recent operation restored her sight. Now, she's eager to experience everything the world has to offer-including the sweet talk of a handsome cowboy who rouses her desire . . . Hank Coulter has no plans...
Author
Series
Rugrats volume 8
Publisher
Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
1999
Description
The Rugrats try to find a cure for Spike when he suddenly and temporarily loses his vision.
6) The insult
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1996
Description
A man goes blind after being struck by a stray bullet, then discovers he can see at night. He leaves his job and family, moves into a seedy hotel and joins the world of the night people, taking up with a woman.
7) Blindness
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
Description
An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of a woman who claims to be blind so she won't be separated from her husband. A look at how people behave under stress. By the author of The History of the Siege of Lisbon.
9) Dead eyes
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
First there were roses and the notes in her mailbox signed simply, "Admirer." Then, the accident. One minute Chris Callaway was one of Hollywood's brightest rising stars, starting a new picture that could send her career skyrocketing; the next, she was falling from the unfinished deck of her beautiful new Malibu beach house...waking up blind, uncertain whether she would ever see again.
An optimist and a fighter, Chris is determined not to let anyone...
10) The crossroad
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
After writing a story in Amish country, New York journalist Phillip Bradley returns to Lancaster County haunted by the memory of soft-spoken widow he met there, but winning her heart is just the first step in a long journey that will require him surrendering his own culture.
11) Undaunted
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Falling in love with her boss's handsome millionaire neighbor was easy for young Emma Copeland. Despite the vast differences between them, and a past that's left Connor Sinclair reclusive and wary, Emma gambles her heart on a desire that rocks them both. But there's something Connor doesn't know: Emma is responsible for an accident that changed his life forever. Connor lives by rules intended to protect both him and his vast wealth. Emma's innocence...
12) Don't breathe 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Norman Nordstrom lives in quiet isolation until his past sins catch up to him. Recreating the family which was stolen from him by a drunk driver, a young girl now lives with Norman, and when criminals kidnap her, he will do anything to save her.
13) The ticket
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
After James, a blind man, inexplicably regains his vision, he becomes possessed by a drive to make a better life for himself. However, his new improvements - a nicer home, a higher-paying job, tailored suits, luxury car - leave little room for the people who were part of his old, simpler life: his plain wife and close friend Bob. As his relationships buckle under the strain of his snowballing ambition, it becomes uncertain if James can ever return...
18) Hannah
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Nine-year-old Hannah, living on a farm in 1887 Michigan, is referred to as 'poor Hannah' because she is blind. In this brief historical novel, Hannah tells of a turning point in her life when Miss Robbin, the new teacher, comes to board with them and eventually persuades the family to let Hannah attend school.
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Formats
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"Joshua is convinced there is a family curse. It's taken loved ones from him, it's robbed him of his eyesight, and it's the reason why his father is killed while investigating the homicide of a young woman. Joshua is handed an opportunity he can't refuse: an operation that will allow him to see the world through his father's eyes. As Joshua navigates a world of sight, he gets glimpses of what these eyes might have witnessed in their previous life....
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who, having been blinded himself at the age of three, went on to develop a system of raised dots on paper that enabled blind people to read and write.
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